handsome 4 volume New Testament, leatherbound, 1856

Translated out of the Original Greekand with the former Translations Diligently Compared and RevisedNew YorkAmerican Bible Society1856

Bound in black leather with minimal embossing and gold lettering. Nice large type- beautiful layout. Gilt edges. A handsome set with a nice austere presence on the shelf.

This set has survived very well, and has some an old inscription from 1859 of the second blank page. Some light wear at extremities (see photograph), light surface scratching, and a little splitting at top of spine of volume IV. Light foxing.